National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1946. No. 69.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1943.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the National Security Act 1939-1943.

Dated this tenth day of April, 1946.

HENRY

Governor-General.

By His Royal Highness’s Command,

F M. FORDE

for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendments of the National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations.

Outward letters and communications.

1.Regulation 31 of the National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1a.) the words “censorship and to” and

(b) by omitting sub-regulation (2.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(2.) The Prisoners of War Camp Orders may prescribe conditions as to the length of letters sent by prisoners of war and the stationery to be used.”.

Censorship of letters and parcels.

2.Regulation 33 of the National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1.).

Level censorship.

3.Regulation 34 of the National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations is amended by omitting the words “In addition to censorship by the Post and Telegraph Censorship Authority, the” and inserting in their stead the word “The”.

Inward letters.

4.Regulation 35 of the National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “censorship, and to”.

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* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 11th April, 1946.

  Statutory Rules 1941, No. 178, as amended by Statutory Rules 1941, Nos. 201 and 267; 1942, Nos. 315 and 526; 1943, Nos. 88, 132 and 277; 1944, No. 78; and 1945, No. 162.

1328.—Price 3d.

Letters, &c., where prisoners of war are in civil or military hospitals.

5.Regulation 38 of the National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations is amended by omitting paragraphs (b) and (c) and inserting in their stead the following word and paragraph:—

“and

(b) if the Camp Commandant considers it necessary, all letters, postcards and parcels dispatched by, or addressed to, the prisoner of war are sent to the camp for examination.”.

Prisoners of war representatives.

6.Regulation 42 of the National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (4.) the words “(other than censorship)”.

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By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.